Over the past couple weeks, we’ve seen major progression on the roof enhancements, outside N+1 generator area, and buildout of the first pod and UPS room.

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Tags: colocation houston, data center construction, generators N+1, roof reinforcement, UPS rooms

Houston data center buildout is moving right along with hurricane safeguards for the roof and pad foundations for the 80,000lb generators.

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Tags: chillers, colocation houston, data center texas, generators, pumphouses, roof safeguards

The first 400-ton chiller and pumphouse arrived onsite this week. In preparation for them to reside on top of the building, engineers are enhancing the roof with additional attachments to existing steel joints.

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Tags: 2n cooling, chilllers, colocation houston, data center texas, roof wind support

We literally began breaking ground…and walls and ceilings and sidewalks…to build out our N+1 generator area.

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Tags: concurrent maintainability, data center texas, digital realty trust, high availability, houston colocation, new datacenter

One of the things a CIO can do to control costs and impress the CEO is to look at the “true” cost of running and maintaining the data center.

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Tags: cio concerns, colocation, data center, it sustainability, power usage

The marriage of Fiber Channel and Ethernet unites the ubiquity of Ethernet and the performance of FC to better manage IT initiatives.

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Tags: data center optimization, FCoE, fiber channel over ethernet, houston colocation, network convergence, networking, storage